To catch you up a little, I recently added a Synology DS1520+ to my home network. I’ve moved at least most of the services that were on my DS918+ onto this new server. In the process I’m learning how to setup a level of redundancy so if one server goes down, I can continue with … Read more
My site is now hosted by a new DS-1520+ server I’ve brought online. In the process I’ve figured out how to move a wordpress site. The steps fell into place pretty smoothly until right near the end when I tried to restore my wordpress database backup and could not! Ultimately I figured out a workaround … Read more
Testing your network for speed stats like bandwidth and latency seems pretty basic. Getting that for my Synology NAS has been less than easy though because Synology surprisingly does not yet have an application for that. Yes you can put a device next to the NAS and make some assumptions about what the NAS sees. … Read more
Maintaining good backups of workstations in my life is important to me. I have what is for me a complex digital life that is important to being a functional human being. I’ll leave it at that. I don’t want to run significant risk of losing it. I’ve been burned in the past and things either … Read more
My site is finally accessible with “www” URLs such as http://www.walterstovall.online to reach my home page. It might seem weird that I would just now get around to that but I go where I’m drawn. I consider it a milestone in my site-build that I even care 🙂 In reality this is a little more … Read more
I ask you who wouldn’t be a little proud now? 🙂 A lot of the credit has to go to my friend Frank who shared with me this really amazing WebPageTest resource. OK so they gave me the grade and that makes me sound biased right? Well at first I got straight Fs from them. … Read more
I’ve had a problem in the past where I would get error messages from wordpress when attempting to install plugins because it did not have the file system permissions it needed. I ended up setting the wp-content directory access to 777 temporarily and then reverting to 755 when done (allow read/execute only). There should be … Read more
I’ve noticed a problem in the way I manage my media library – if I don’t go out of my way to compress images to a reasonable quality level for speedy delivery, nothing in the path of execution does it for me and the images download slowly because they’re too big. I could use photoshop … Read more
A recent power outage that lasted for hours reminded me of how vulnerable I’ve been. I’ve had a UPS but if the power stays out and the battery dies oh well… I fixed that adding a APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 S. To sense the power I ran the included USB to the back of my … Read more
I installed the WP Mail SMTP plugin and got my API key setup. Then it worked on the first try. First I got email at my primary account but then also sent one to a gmail account I have on the side. Congrats, test email was sent successfully! Thank you for trying out WP Mail … Read more